How 3 Celebrity “Tiger Moms” Push Their Kids to Excel
All parents want their children to be successful. Termed by Yale professor, Amy Chua, Tiger Moms are those who use authoritarian parenting methods to push their children to be well-rounded and successful. The Chinese entertainment industry has a few Tiger Moms of its own, who believe that early childhood education would pave an easier way for future success.
Kelly Lin
Taiwanese actress, Kelly Lin (林熙蕾), is currently 43 years old and has a seven-year-old daughter, Kaitlin Young (楊若妤), and a four-year-old daughter, Mila Young (楊晨熙). She admitted to being a Tiger Mom and is strict with her daughters. They adhere to a very strict and disciplined schedule, with set times for eating, sleeping, brushing their teeth, and other daily activities. Kelly also requires that they be in bed by 7 p.m. every night and restricts her daughters from using technological devices.
Kelly does, however, encourage her daughters to explore their own interests, such as piano, violin, badminton, ballet, or swimming, but does not force them to go to tutoring.
Kenix Kwok
Married to Frankie Lam (林文龍), 48-year-old Kenix Kwok (郭可盈) retired from acting in order to be a full-time housewife and take care of the couple’s eight-year-old daughter, Tina Lam (林天若). Kenix places emphasis on education and enrolled Tina in an international elementary school early on. She also signed Tina up for nearly ten hobby courses. When Tina was three, she was enrolled in diving, drawing, singing, and English classes.
When she was four, she split her day between two prominent preschools. Kenix explained, “I won’t force my daughter to do something she doesn’t like. Having her attend two schools is not about planning for the future, but it’s just that the two schools both seemed to suit her. The principals have also expressed their belief that Tina enjoys campus life, so I’m letting her enjoy it!”
Sandra Ng
Sandra Ng (吳君如) and director Peter Chan‘s (陳可辛) daughter, Jilia Chan (陳是知), will be turning 12 years old this year. Sandra gave birth to Jilia when she was 41 years old and it was considered a high-risk pregnancy. Because she had Jilia at an older age, Sandra has always doted on daughter. Sandra places a lot of emphasis on linguistics, so she would primarily speak English to Jilia at home. Peter, who is originally from Thailand, would communicate with Jilia in Thai. When Jilia was one and a half years old, Sandra enrolled in her a playgroup that communicated in English and Mandarin, in hopes that she would pick up on the languages and be more fluent.
She spent more than $1 million HKD enrolling Jilia in various hobby classes, such as art, badminton, and chess. Sandra also places a lot of emphasis on discipline. Regardless of whether it’s a school night or weekend, Sandra requires Jilia to be up timely at 7 a.m. every morning. She also does not allow Jilia to eat junk food, snacks, or drink soda and would only let her eat organic foods.
Source: hket
This article is written by Huynh for JayneStars.com.
Kenix’s daughter’s name is Tania Lam not Tina. Sandra’s daughter’s name is Jillian Chan not Jilia Chan. I think they should be corrected.
I LOVE Sandra Ng. She is one of my favorite actresses of all times. I can laugh all day just watching her interviews. What a pity now that she’s rarely on the big screen making comedies. I also enjoyed watching her in drama films like the Echoes of the Rainbow
“They adhere to a very strict and disciplined schedule, with set times for eating, sleeping, brushing their teeth, and other daily activities. Kelly also requires that they be in bed by 7 p.m. every night and restricts her daughters from using technological devices.
Kelly does, however, encourage her daughters to explore their own interests, such as piano, violin, badminton, ballet, or swimming, but does not force them to go to tutoring.”
That just sounds like regular responsible parenting to me.
@peanutbutterjelly
‘Kelly also requires that they be in bed by 7 p.m. every night and restricts her daughters from using technological devices’.
This one is a matter of opinion since I’ve found that my son has learned everything to a high level english and maths for his age straight from using the ipad(mainly youtube) while I work in another city and only come home 2 days a week. Negative is that it can be addictive but if we as parents maintain a balance of the correct use of technology then it will benefit the child. Currently the industry that has the most rapid development and rapid wage rises is the technology industry so developing an early interest will go a long way. A parent can hold their child back by having a narrow minded ancient way of thinking…
@jimmyszeto I think restriction but not prohibition is the best approach, at least that’s what I do and assume what Kelly does too. Educational apps can be benificial and children should learn to use devices in order to keep up with their peers but, like you said, it’s rather addictive for children so restriction is definitely necessary. My friend’s son never grew up with Ipads but he’s only allowed to play on his playstation during the weekend and never on week days for example.
I think for young kids, adequate discipline is better than none because they know what they want at that age but do not know what they need. I see so many kids nowadays that run amok and chuck tantrums when they don’t get their way and it is too late for their parents to enforce discipline.
Kids’ brains are like sponges. Exposing them to a lot of different things at a young age is good to stimulate them to develop interests. But I hope their parents will also learn to adequately cut down their hobbies as they get older so they don’t get overloaded with activities and just focus on a few.
Re Sandra Ng’s daughter:
Funny how right under the sentence “She also does not allow Jilia to eat junk food, snacks, or drink soda and would only let her eat organic foods” there’s a photo of her and the daughter with donuts, soft drink, cookies LOL
@myxx
The 2 bottles look like Spritzer mineral water. As for snacks, maybe she just meant potato chips and other junk food. The donuts might have been made with very healthy organic ingredients. 😀
@kidd organic or not, donut is still bad lol
@myxx I assumed the joke was everything on the right (the junk food) is for Sandra and the food on the left (strawberries and healthy options) are for the daughter.
Kelly does, however, encourage her daughters to explore their own interests, such as piano, violin, badminton, ballet, or swimming,
These are very conventional hobbies. Will Kelly allow it if her daughters want to dance hip hop instead of ballet, or want to play guitar, drums or Indian sitar instead of piano and violin? Just a thought.
Lol. Really? Kelly Lin daughter goes to bed around dinner time?
@cutie777 western society put young children to bed at 7, because when they are young (3-6mo onward), they don’t understand or know how to go to sleep when they are tired. Giving them a set routine help them go to sleep better, avoid overtired, and make life very easy for the parents. I also have my son go to bed between 6:30 to 7:30 (though I’m terrible at it, so sometimes he does go to bed at 8-8:30 if we go out), then he would sleep until 6/7am (with 1 or no wake up in the middle of the night).
If you ask any parents, a set routine make raising children a lot easier, and they all swear by it. I even have a dude married a Beijing, and he told me set routine is so good, and he regret not having them because his household has 4 adults, all with different set of mind and think they are right (3 from Beijing if you haven’t guessed lol). The routine helps calm them as well, that’s why even when you travel, keep to the routine help children adapt to the new environment better.
@littlefish Indeed, children need set rules and routines. Especially very young ones.
@cutie777 When did your parents put you to sleep when you were little? Because I thought that’s a pretty normal hour to go to bed for children. I remember me and my siblings getting put to bed around that hour too when we were little.